Serving you for over 30 Years! The Woolery is a family owned business and we've been serving our customers for over 30 years (since 1981).We ship orders all over the world - everyday and we have tens of thousands of satisfied customers.
Our mission is to provide fiber arts supplies at competitive prices with fast turn around times and excellent customer service. We make it a point to routinely evaluate our prices and we are always shopping for better deals to pass on to our customers.
Part of the Fiber Community We also strive to be a part of the fiber arts community and it is part of our mission to strongly support guilds, festivals and the fiber arts people that work so hard to keep the crafts alive for future generations.
We believe that it is essential for a fiber arts supply company to provide the following services: • Have a brick and mortar shop that you can visit, shop in, attend classes in, learn and fellowship in.
• Answer the phone and provide knowledgeable people to answer questions.
• Stock the products in house (How can you know about a product if you have never seen or used it?).
• Offer an outlet for new craftspeople to sell their stuff such as tools, spindles, finished fiber arts products and more.
• Participate in the development of new products and strive to provide new sources for products that are hard to get or have disappeared.
• Support fiber arts publications, festivals, guilds and artists.
The Woolery Crew The shop is staffed daily by Nancy (answers incoming calls, orders all of the inventory and keeps everyone calm), her husband Chris (fumbles around - trying to keep up), the other Nancy (most excellent teacher and very knowledgeable in all aspects of fiber arts), Anita ( the knitting queen, spinner and weaver) , Dara ( spinner, weaver, knitter and dying - to name a few), Rebecca (spinner, knitter and rug hooker), Judy (shipping & receiving) Anna (felting, beading, spinning and learning to weave) , Chris (our some young guy - learning to spin), Christian (thinks he is in charge -thinks he is human - keeps the delivery people hopping - requires doggie treat if you come in the shop) & Helga who takes it very - very easy.
Our History The Woolery was started in 1981 in Genoa, NY by the Horchlers. We started as a small farm offering wool (from sheep on the Horchlers farm), basic supplies and spinning lessons. We called ourselves "Woolery Farm". A few years after starting, we opened the "Fingerlakes Woolen Mill" but the mill was sold when, in 2001, The Woolery expanded and moved to Murfreesboro, North Carolina. In 2009 The Woolery was purchased by Chris & Nancy, expanded again and moved to historic Frankfort, Kentucky. Frankfort is more assessable to fiber folks who travel and want to visit. Our shop in Frankfort is just 10-15 minutes from the crossroads of I-75 and I-64 as well as being next to the UPS International shipping hub (Louisville). Not to mention this is our hometown!
